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Tales of Escape

OnSkull Games · 2017-03-15

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Mar 15, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Tales of Escape" is a series of 6 person multiplayer escape room adventures for virtual reality or desktop pc! Gather your friends and choose a story to play!

Tales of Escape is a free-to-play Adventure, Casual, Indie, and Free To Play game released in 2017, with an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 owners and Mixed (60% of 2207 reviews) sentiment.

2
playing now
60%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 60 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 28,945 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2017-06-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
545420182026Week of 2018-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1502026-09-15 13:00 — 9 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 9 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 7 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 8 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 8 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 5 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 5 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 6 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 5 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 15 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 8 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 9 players2026-10-15 03:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
601Mar 2017Aug 2026Mar 2017 — avg 1 · peak 9Jun 2017 — avg 1 · peak 11Sep 2017 — avg 1 · peak 8Dec 2017 — avg 12 · peak 156Mar 2018 — avg 12 · peak 45Jun 2018 — avg 15 · peak 54Sep 2018 — avg 14 · peak 63Dec 2018 — avg 19 · peak 57Mar 2019 — avg 26 · peak 92Jun 2019 — avg 24 · peak 70Sep 2019 — avg 21 · peak 67Dec 2019 — avg 20 · peak 76Mar 2020 — avg 39 · peak 156Jun 2020 — avg 23 · peak 75Sep 2020 — avg 19 · peak 59Dec 2020 — avg 23 · peak 89Mar 2021 — avg 22 · peak 92Jun 2021 — avg 17 · peak 55Sep 2021 — avg 19 · peak 66Dec 2021 — avg 12 · peak 37Mar 2022 — avg 10 · peak 40Jun 2022 — avg 9 · peak 44Sep 2022 — avg 6 · peak 32Dec 2022 — avg 10 · peak 54Mar 2023 — avg 12 · peak 41Jun 2023 — avg 10 · peak 33Sep 2023 — avg 7 · peak 29Dec 2023 — avg 8 · peak 35Mar 2024 — avg 8 · peak 36Jun 2024 — avg 8 · peak 33Sep 2024 — avg 53 · peak 209Dec 2024 — avg 7 · peak 36Mar 2025 — avg 10 · peak 57Jun 2025 — avg 6 · peak 24Sep 2025 — avg 6 · peak 27Dec 2025 — avg 5 · peak 22Mar 2026 — avg 6 · peak 25Jun 2026 — avg 7 · peak 31Aug 2026 — avg 7 · peak 22
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.002017-03-162017-10-212017-03-16 — best price $4.492017-03-22 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $3.742017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-10-21 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
46.6%
earned "Digging a way out"
3.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportTracked Controller SupportVR Supported7 DLC

10 supported languages: English, Greek, Polish, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal

Post-launch support: 7 DLC released, first 2017-10-20, latest 2020-04-16 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,6172%16

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

VRCo-opFunnyIndieActionHorrorPuzzleMysteryAdventureExploration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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